The Riot Inside Me

by Coleman, Wanda

• ISBN13: 9781574232004
• ISBN10: 1574232002
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-25
• Publisher: Black Sparrow Pr

Table of Contents

Introduction: My Writing Life & Loves	xiii
Music & Madnesses
A Girl's Diary (Excerpts---Summer 1961)	3	(3)
Jabberwocky Baby	6	(3)
For Dad, On What Would Have Been His 84th Birthday	9	(4)
My Blues Love Affair	13	(15)
Love-Ins with Nietzsche	28	(18)
Angela's Big Night	46	(9)
Primal Orb Density	55	(20)
Tea Leaves & Jeremiads
Looking for It: An Interview with Wanda Coleman---1991	75	(27)
Bobbi Sykes: An Interview	102	(15)
Remembering Latasha: Get Out of Dodge! Blacks, Immigrants & America	117	(10)
Uncommon Courtesy	127	(6)
The Maya Situation
Flung into Controversy---Indeed	133	(3)
Coulda Shoulda Woulda: ``A Song Flung Up to Heaven,'' by Maya Angelou	136	(4)
Black on Black: Fear & Reviewing in Los Angeles	140	(12)
Boos & Reviews: The Angelou--EsoWon Contretemps	152	(5)
Hunt & Peck: Book Reviewing, African American Style	157	(5)
From What Saves Us: An Interview with Wanda Coleman---2002	162	(4)
Heavy Duty Postscript	166	(5)
My Future Is in My Past
Dancer on a Blade: Deep Talk, Revisions & Reconsiderations	171	(44)
I Was a Stand-in Diva for June Jordan	215	(3)
Letters to E. Ethelbert Miller	218	(13)
5 Years After: Discontent Festers in South Central & We Are All O.J.	231	(6)
Wearing My Maturity: Malcolm Boyd's Q&A on Aging	237	(6)
9/11 Blues	243	(4)
The Riot Inside Me: A Statistic Speaks	247	(12)
Sources & Acknowledgments	259